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Translation

to become evident, to turn out; to come to light

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from evidenta plus the suffix -iĝ-. The adjective comes from Latin evidens, ex 'out' plus videns 'seeing', so the picture underneath is of something that has come out where it can be seen.

Origin
Esperanto derivation on a Latin root
Root
evidenta + -iĝ-
English cognates
evident, evidence, video, vision

Examples

, .

It soon became clear that he was right.

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The truth only came to light many years later.

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If you wait, everything will become clear.

Take the adjective evidenta, obvious, and add --, the suffix that means "become". You get a verb meaning to become obvious, and Esperanto builds it in one move where English needs three words.

That is the whole method, and it is worth doing deliberately once. -- takes an adjective and makes the subject drift into that state on its own: red gives i to blush, tired gives i to get tired, gives . Its partner -- does the opposite, handing the action to somebody else: means to make something evident, to demonstrate it. One letter apart, and the two of them are the single most productive pair in the language. The full contrast, with the transitivity rules behind it, is at ig and iĝ.

In practice almost always turns up with : , ... it turned out that... That is the everyday English "it turned out", and it is an easier sentence to build than it looks, because the impersonal subject Esperanto simply leaves out.

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This word is part of lesson 39.